| Author | Parton, James, 1822-1891.
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| Title | Daughters of genius; a series of sketches of authors, artists, reformers, and heroines, queens, princesses, and women of society, women eccentric and peculiar, from the most recent and authentic sources, by James Parton.
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| Published | Philadelphia, Hubbard Brothers, 1886 [c1885]
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| Description | 563 p. ports. 20 cm.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Sally Bush--The Brontë sisters--Queen Victoria--Elizabeth Barrett Browning--Mrs. Stowe and Uncle Tom's cabin--Miss Alcott--George Eliot--Princess Louise--Fanny Mendelssohn--Angelica Kaufmann--Baroness Burdett-Coutts--Girlhood of Queen Elizabeth--The wife of Thomas Carlyle--The wife of Benedict Arnold--Adelaide Procter--Lady Bloomfield--The mother of Victor Hugo--Laura Bridgeman--The wife of George Washington in her workroom at Mount Vernon--Madame de Staël and Napoleon Bonaparte--The wife of Frederick the Great--The flight of Eugénie--Caroline Herschel--Charlotte Cushman--Maria Mitchell--Mrs. Trollope--Adelaide Phillips--Two queens; the daughters of James II of England--An evening with Rachel--Josephine and Bonaparte--Lady Morgan--Maria Theresa--Lady Franklin--Madame de Miramion--Peg O'Neal--Mrs. L.M. Monmouth, and how she lived on forty dollars a year--Trial of Jeanne Darc, commonly called Joan of Arc--Harriet Martineau--The wife of Lafayette--Betsy Patterson, otherwise Madame Jerome Bonaparte of Baltimore--Some ladies of the old school--Toru Dutt--George Sand.
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| Subjects | Women -- Biography.
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| | WRHS Research Library: B 7771b
mq152715: Local class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 89540] |
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